Colorado

Missy Franklin is starting to feel like a grown-up.

“I don’t know where the time went,” she said, breaking into a bubbly laugh. “We just went to the bank the other day and signed everything over. It’s crazy. I do feel a little bit older.”

Sure, the star of the London Olympics still has much of her life in front of her. But Franklin reached one important milestone last week, celebrating her 18th birthday, and she’ll mark another Monday when she graduates from her Denver-area high school.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- The Mesa County Sheriff's Department says a missing person case dating back more than two decades could be solved after a hiker found a human skeleton in a partially buried car southwest of Gateway.

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks that control everything from electrical power grids to the banking system.

DENVER — The kind of avalanche that killed five people in Colorado over the weekend is among the most difficult to predict and trigger, and it’s dangerous because of the amount of snow normally involved.

GEORGETOWN, Colo. -- Five snowboarders were killed Saturday afternoon in a backcountry avalanche on Colorado's Loveland Pass, authorities said.

DENVER -- Thousands of people are expected to join an unofficial counterculture holiday celebrating marijuana in Colorado and Washington this coming weekend, including out-of staters and even packaged tours. The events and crowds will test the limits of new laws permitting pot use by adults.

DENVER -- One of two members of a white supremacist gang linked to the killing of Colorado's prisons chief has been arrested just miles from where the state official was shot to death answering the door to his home.